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Will that button/ animation/ etc. fall “below the fold”?

If you’ve been in website design for any length of time you’ve asked or been asked that question and probably had a folder held up a designer’s large, beautiful, high definition monitor to show approximately where mortals endowed with older, smaller monitors will have the web page cropped.  How many times has your gorgeous design been ruined altered to suit these lesser monitors.  On the other hand how many times have you not made a change and suffered the impact?  I can be sure that for every sigh heard when that folder was used to estimate where the fold lay a designer has asked “but how many people will actually see the fold there?”

Now all of your answers can be found with Google Browser Size.  Just enter your url for an overlay of what percentage of people who will see the given screen real estate.  The sizes in the layout are not browser window sizes they are “client area sizes,” which Google defines as “the size of the browser without the title bar, toolbars, status bars, etc., and thus give a true representation of how much content can be seen by a particular segment of the Web-using population.”

Pages, like my blog, that do not have a left aligned, fixed layout require that you re-size your browser to force the left edge of the page against the left side of the browser to get accurate results. Otherwise this is an extremely handy feature.

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